Word: knoxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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General Hat Four famed U. S. hat names are Dobbs, Knapp-Felt, Knox, Dunlap. The first two belong to Cavanagh-Dobbs, Inc., a company whose roots run back to 1858 and which boasts of having introduced the first U. S.-made derby in 1860. The other two belong to Knox Hat Co. Inc., founded in 1838 by one Charles Knox. Last week Dobbs-President John Cavanagh announced a merger with Knox Hat. A new holding company, General Hat, will take over both concerns. Although both Dobbs and Knox have been making adjustments in their retail store outlets, General...
Next day in 1,300 U. S. towns and cities under the direction of Col. Frank Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, an army of men and women set out on a house-to-house canvass to get people to spend or invest their money in some way. "We are an employment agency for idle dollars," said Col. Knox. "If the owners of idle, hidden dollars do not want to employ them in normal ways. Uncle Sam will give them a job-and pay them wages...
...rich wife, a fine Bishop's Palace, a salary of $15,000 and a $5,000 "discretionary fund," followed suit. In response to an emergency call for retrenchment from Bishop Perry, Massachusetts was the first diocese to act as a unit in salary cuts. Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. who gets $15,000 per year, joined with 300 Massachusetts clergymen in contributing $28,000 in the form of reduced salaries. From retirement emerged wealthy, 81-year-old Bishop William Lawrence to lend sage counsel...
Within a week after the Citizens' Reconstruction Organization sent out anti-hoarding advertisements (TIME, Feb. 29) some 300 newspapers had published (or agreed to publish) them free of charge- first among them the Chicago Daily News whose publisher, Col. William Franklin Knox, is chairman of the C. R. 0. First to refuse publicly was the Manhattan tabloid Daily News whose publisher, Joseph Medill Patterson, is of the great family that publishes the potent Chicago Tribune. His editorial retort to his Chicago rival: "Col. Knox and his committee have now undertaken to pull what is best described as a fast...
...from 1933-48, ten shares of common at $5 (current prices: $4). The bonds will be offered to A. G. & E. stockholders and bondholders. And this final detail caused the greatest part of Wall Street's whoop. For Mr. Hopson plans to go farther than anti-hoarding Col. Frank Knox with his baby bonds of $50 denomination. The A. G. & E. bonds, which can be paid for in three instalments, will be issued in denominations as low as $10, outdoing the babies of baby-bonds...